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Jadwiga Szeptycka

Polish archeologist and ethnographer, writer and social activist

Irena Sendler

Vital member of the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, heading the children’s section of Żegota from October 1943.

Dorothea Erxleben

Germany’s first female doctor.

Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.